Since 1961, the Senate Subcommittee on Constitutional Rights has conducted an extensive investigation into the constitutional rights of the American Indian, the first such study ever undertaken by Congress. This report summarizes the subcommittee's...

This report is based primarily upon data collected for the the Missouri Basin Project, River Basin Surveys, Smithsonian Institution, during the latter half of the 1950 field season and during the summer of 1951.

Contents: Introduction (The life and works of Edwin Thompson Denig) -- Crow relationship to the Hidatsa -- Description of Crow country -- Population and major divisions -- Intertribal relations -- Raiding for horses -- Some characteristics of the...

This monograph presents material on the modern religious concepts and practices of the Teton division of the Sioux or Dakota Indians. Religious concepts of the Teton Dakota Indians of South Dakota are basically unchanged, and pre-reservation...

This publication contains a collection of 192 articles extracted from 125 issues of Indian Education published between 1944 and 1951. The articles deal with a range of topics including administration at the national and local level, understanding...

A study of the alternatives to the present use and apportionment of Indian-owned range resources was conducted. The study was suggested as Phase II of an Area Grazing Resource Administration and Management Study. Phase I, completed in April 1977,...

The purposes of this study of the Wind River Shoshone Sun Dance are to broaden existing knowledge of the past and present forms of the ceremony, to trace its history, and to outline the social and psychological factors affecting the development of...

American Indians today [1965] are bidding actively for a slice of the Nation’s ever growing tourism industry. The country’s earliest residents now welcome visitors to their reservations in increasing numbers, to fish, hunt, and camp outdoors, while...

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